trapping

Example Sentences

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"You're not going to lose a finger, but it would feel like trapping your hand in a car door – it would certainly ruin your day," he said.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Some liminal spaces, as in the case of the “Backrooms,” seem to take on a life of their own, trapping their inhabitants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

She said worsening economic pressures were trapping many people in debt they had little realistic prospect of escaping.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

The study shows that the singular dispersion equation produces narwhal-shaped wavefunctions capable of trapping light at remarkably small scales within lossless dielectric materials.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

The money he earned from cutting ice or trapping lobsters or painting his pictures went for things we couldn’t grow ourselves.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk